Metallic railroad-tie.



A. M. BAIRD. METALLIC RILROAD TIE.

APPLIGATIOHFILED API..14,1908.

@@936@ I Patented Oct. 27, 1908.

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A RtfHlli MARKLAND BAIIID, OF TUPEKA, KANSAS.

METALLIC RAILROAD-".l.IE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 27', 1908.

Application filed April 14, 1908. Serial No. 426,935.

To all i/ rlmm 'it may concern:

Be it known that l, Anemia )L Bunn, a citizen, of the United States, anda resident of Topekz, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in tallie Railroad-'1`ies,of which the following' is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to improve the construction of thecross tie, for which a patent July 2, 1907, and numbered SMQ-l2.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts, as is hereinafter described and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specitication, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding` parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of a cross tie en'ibodyine' the presentimprovements; Fig. Q is a detached perspective View of an attachablewing that is a detail of the invention; Fig. 3 a longitudinal sectionalviewof a portion of the cross tie body having a feature of improvementthereon, the section beinev taken on the line l-l in Fig. it; Fig. -1 isa plan view of the portion of the cross tie body shown in Fig. il; andFig'. 5 is a transverse sectional view of the improved cross tie,substantially on the line .3-5 in Fig. l.

t3 indicates the body of the cross tie, preferably constructed of steelplate cut and bent into shape, and as shown in the drawings, two sidewalls t3 are spaced apart by a fiat bottom wallpt), and thus held invertical parallel planes, and it may here be explained that this form ofthe tie body is not 'claimed as broadly new, the samebeing shown in saidvLetters Patent No. 858,942,

Two rail -loearing stools are. furnished, which are of simitar'form,cach consisting otl a top plate 7, and two side walls 7, which are bentat right angles from the top plate, and are thus disposed in parallelplanes.

'lhe space between the outer. sides of the side walls 7 of each stool issuch that they may be inserted down into the open top of the tie body,and fit closely against the inner surface of its side walls tj, the truefree side walls 7l1 being seated upon the bottom Wall (3" of the tiebody.

The stools are disposed at such a distance 'as granted vto me, dated l ll l l l l l l l l l l l i i 1 l i l l l i apart as will conform to thegage or degree oi' separation between the track rails, and each stool issecured within the tie. body by rivets u, which are secured intransverse perforalions ol the lapped side walls 6'l and 7a. The topplates 7 of the stools have their upper surfaces substantially liushwith the top edo-es of the side walls 6 of the tie bodyl o, .so that thetrack rails A, A, may be seated upon said top plates 7 and be thereonsecured by clamps that may be of any approved construction.

The features of improvement that are most important in this invention,comprise novel means for holding the body (l stationary, andpre.\f'entine` a longitudinal creeping' movement, that is liable tooccur in a road bed of clay or wet soil in which the tie body may slip.

One detail of the invention for effecting; the purpose mentioned,consists in the formation of preferably V-shaped lugs C' on the lowerside of the bottom wall G of the tie body G. These lugs in any preferrednumber, are formed integrally with said bottom wall by cutting,` thematerial forming' each lug loose at the side edges, leaving a transverseconnection c remain intact, as shown best in Fig. 3, and the luer iscompleted by bending the same down at a right angle,- thus projectingAit from the lower side of the bottom wall G".

Another important novel detail of construction is shown detached in Fig.2,- and connected with the tie body in Fig. l, this consisting; of awing' rl, formed of plate metal, bent into shape by return folding a`strip of metal together at its center of length, thus forming the bodyof the wing', and at. opposite points d', again bending the strip atright angles outwardly from thewing formingi [langes rll, at oppositesides of the lat-ter, and disposing said tlang'cs in the same plane.'lhe wings (l are mounted upon the outer surfaces of the side walls ti",of the tie body, and thereto secured by rivets d on bolts passed throughtransverse perforations in the flanges l? and said sidel walls f.Preferably two of these projecting wings rl are secured on the tie bodyoppositely and at its longitudinal center; but it is to be linderstoodthat an increased number of said wings, disposed at any distance apart,may

' be secured on the side walls of the tie body.

It will be seen that the projecting' Wings (l form abutments which willhold the tie body Stationary, and that. the luge c on the bottom Walletsaid tie body -will cooperate with the Wings, for eileoting such apurpose.

The employment of the improved features in connection With an openchanneled body for a metallic cross tie, is especially advanta geous forholding Such ties that are located on sharp curvesy of a railroad, or onany other portion of the `road-bed that may incline more or lesslaterally. n fact, the use of the Wings and lugs on the tie body isadvantageous at any point, and in any Soil on a railroad track Wherecross ties are liable to creep endwise.

Having described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters latent:-

l. A tie comprising a. channel shaped body, channel shaped rail stools,having their side Walls inserted between the side Walle of the tie body,and seating on the bottom wall of the tie body, said body having bentdown projections on its bottom and lateral Wings on its sides, each ofsaid Wings comprising a strip folded upon itself, and

lhaving its free ends bent laterally, and secured to the tie.

2. A tie Comprising a channel shaped body, channel shaped rail stools,havlng their side walls inserted between the side ARCHIE MARKLAND BAIRD.

`Witnessesr DON KINNEY, HARRY A. INGOLD.

